Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they are used for "bait" to gain Catholic readers to your list of subscribers. Why criticize the Church in such a cowardly way? Why not stand upon your own two feet and say: This magazine is definitely opposed to Catholicism? I am sure that you would earn more respect and esteem than that which you now hold. We, 1,000 strong, have formulated a plan of action in which, unless your policy is notably changed, we will persuade the other 2,000 and their families to discontinue reading your publication. This action, al though originating in Los Angeles, Calif...
Other countries, which actually followed accepted neutral practice, had little difficulty in staying out of the late war and have enjoyed universal respect...
...Reynolds, head of the Royal Academy, to which he also belonged. Their relations had always been strained. Tom was unreasonable in the matter of hanging his own pictures; he ignored his colleagues' invitations and never repaid their visits. Reynolds, on the other hand, treated him with great friendliness and respect, terming him the "first landscape painter in Europe...
...What is the use?" he sobbed. "We have tried to pull our country up to the standard of others so that we could look at other nations with a feeling of equality and rightly demand mutual respect. Now it appears that all these efforts are coming to naught...
Speaking to a group of army cooking experts at England's military training ground, Aldershot, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's bachelor Secretary of State for War, said: "I hope you men will spread a love of cooking to your wives, because my own requirements in that respect are so exacting that I have never been able to find a wife to come up to that standard." Cracked a Tommy: "Join the army...